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In <ce3iu1w163w@mantis.co.uk> tony@mantis.co.uk (Tony Lezard) writes:

>mark@zach.fit.edu ( Mark R. Craig) writes:

>> I need to get FRACTINT.EXE to fit on one low density 5.25" floppy.

>As has already been pointed out, LZEXE is the program to do this.
>Unfortunately, FRACTINT (version 14) appears to have already been
>compressed by LZEXE (well, my copy anyway) and so of course no
>further compression attempts will reduce it noticably below 168k.

More bad news for Mark -- version 15 of FractINT uses overlays, which
prevents it from being compresses by LZEXE, PKLITE or (I suspect) any
other .EXE compressor.

The executable alone no longer fits on a 360K floppy, much less with
DOS and COMMAND.COM.

This doesn't disturb *me* too greatly, because I have a hard drive --
but it would be a pain in the @$$ for those without hard drives.  Too
bad, because v15 has a much nicer interface.  (More accurately, v15 HAS
a user interface.)

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